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Re: GDB & Solaris Stabs
- To: chitti at wipinfo dot soft dot net
- Subject: Re: GDB & Solaris Stabs
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 17 Dec 1999 16:07:04 -0500
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199912171449.UAA17048@gem.wipinfo.soft.net>
Supporting lazy stabs (I believe that's what Sun calls this
arrangement, where the debug info stays in the .o file) is a really
amazing accomplishment. This is great news!
If I understand you correctly, you are still building essentially the
same psymtabs that you would with normal stabs, except that you use
the .stab.index section to find the names, instead of scanning the
.stab section. That seems fine to me.
I think it would be great to have this support in the main GDB
distribution. The next step is for me to actually look over the
actual text of your changes in detail. Can you post them here?
There is also the issue of copyright ownership. I've sent you mail
about this before; have you been able to send the papers for your work
to the Free Software Foundation yet?